The Vancouver Institute Presents
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture
Eaarth:
Making a Life On a Tough New Planet
April 9, 2011 – 8:15 p.m.
Professor William McKibben
Scholar in Residence
Middlebury College, Vermont
Described by the Boston Globe as “the nation’s leading environmentalist,” Professor McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes often for Harper’s, National Geographic and The New York Review of Books, among other publications.
McKibben is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global warming awareness campaign that co-ordinated what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history” in October 2009.
Vancouver Institute lectures are free and open to the public.
Location: Woodward Instructional Resource Centre, Lecture Theatre #2. Directions are available here. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
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